Just received this from a friend. Thought it should be shared:
Dear Hollywood celebrities.....!!
It’s time to wake up now.
Get this! The only reason that you exist is for my entertainment.
Some of you are beautiful.
Some of you can deliver a
line with such conviction that you bring
tears to my eyes.
Some of you are so convincing
that you scare the shit out of me. And
others of you are so funny that you can
make me laugh uncontrollably.
But know this, you all have just one thing in common.
You only exist and have a place in my world to entertain me.
That’s it. Nothing else!
You make your living pretending to be someone else. You play
dress-up like a 5-year-old. Your world is a make believe world. It is not
real. It doesn’t exist. You live for the camera while the rest of us live in
the real world. Your entire existence depends on my patronage.
I crank the organ grinder, and you dance.
Therefore, I don’t care where you stand on issues.
Honestly, your opinion means nothing to me.
Just because you had a lead role in a movie about prostitution
doesn’t mean you know what it’s like to be a prostitute.
Your view matters far less to me than that of
someone living in Timbuktu.
Believe me or not, the hard truth is that you aren’t
real. I turn off my TV or shut down my
computer, and you cease to exist.
Once I am done with you, I go back to the real world until I want you
to entertain me again.
I don’t care that you think BP executives deserve the death penalty.
I don’t care what you think about the environment. I don’t care if you
believe fracking is bad. I don’t care if you call for more gun control. I
don’t care if you believe in catastrophic human-induced global
warming.
And I could care less that you supported Hillary for President. Get back into your bubble.
I’ll let you know when I’m in the mood for something pretty or scary or funny.
And one other thing.
What was all this “I’ll leave the country if Donald Trump wins”?
Don’t you know how stupid that made you sound?
What did you think my reaction was going to be? i better not vote for Trump or we’ll lose Whoopi Goldberg? Al Sharpton? Amy Schumer?
Leave. I don’t care! And don’t let the door hit you in
the ass on your way out.
Make me laugh. Make me cry. Even scare me.
But realize this, the only words of yours that matter are scripted
just like your pathetic little lives.
I may agree with some of you from time to time, but in the final analysis, it doesn’t matter. In my world, you exist solely for my entertainment.
So, shut your mouth and dance, monkey, DANCE!
Love it!
OOUUCCHHH!
Most egg sea lint.
Great piece. But this was not written by Ben Stein. I knew I’d seen something very much like this before, years ago, and this is not at all Stein’s writing style. So I did a quick search and found the talented lady who wrote it back in 2010. http://injennifershead.com/?p=1841
What is it that makes some people think it’s perfectly fine to rip off someone else’s work, tinker with it, “update” it, and slap someone else’s name on it? Not criticizing you, personally. You thought you were passing on a properly attributed piece. Just wanted to correct the record.
Aside from it being the right thing to do, once word gets out that you value attribution and accuracy, you’ll find that the daily count of junk FW: fw: fw: emails will drop to about zero.
Carry on.
I sure hope Team Trump reads this as well as Rush, Carlson, et al. I would love to hear this read on FNC tonight.
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